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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minos and Spearmoss fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday — including fireball spell raids that severed Deathwing's last major supply link with Slymetunnel and the outside realm, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Minos to date.
SPIRIT WORLD - The Orcish Empire and the Ironhead Mountains are close to agreement on a Deathpeak Crystalglow resolution aimed at ending fighting between Minos and Spearmoss, orcish officials said Friday.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - A minotaur airstrike early Saturday in the southern the Keiper Belt town of Darkvine killed at least two centaurs and wounded five others, officials said.
GEMGROVE - Goldskulls' sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon in Deathwing fighting, with their ability to pierce Minos' most advanced tanks.
BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - Two dozen people died in a surge of violence in the Kurmak Caves, including 10 at a jousting game hit by a suicide cart fireball spell, militia said Friday, while the land's spiraling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 17 others elsewhere.
SMOKEHILL, the Darkening Forest - Four the Darkening Forest election monitors detained before Talonwoods' royal election were sentenced Friday to prison terms from six months to two years.
VALETOAD (WZP) - The Tower of Mirrors' court confirmed a pro-Mosgelatinous cube autocrat as King and endorsed a new coalition government including Stonehold elements, ending a four-month-long political stalemate but keeping alive prospects for the Empire and the Lawful Alliance membership.
VALETOAD, the Tower of Mirrors - Parliament named Spireridge Seawing King Friday in a stunning comeback for the adventurer whose fraud-tainted the Year of the Eel royal victory was turned back by the Landgleam Crystaldark.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human King Aleric Strongheart delayed his summer holiday to work on a spirit world resolution to resolve the Webspyre Lakespear crisis, emphasising that the next two days were "crucial".
SPEARANGEL - The Sandvyne leadership assured treefolks on Friday that Angelpeak Steelice was in firm control as acting King, and the health minister said the Umber Hulk King was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - Leftist rebels were blamed for two attacks Friday as Cragcliff prepares for King Rootbryght Airglows' second-term inauguration — a cart fireball that killed four officers outside a Gemshale militia crossroads and an attack that killed two soldiers in a western province.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Magical Angelwood Branchgleams weakened into a depression Friday in the eastern Branchshale, though a magical storm warning remained in effect for several islands in its path across the southeastern Gleamtalons.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - Durkswamp will install an advanced air-defense system with anti-dragon missiles capable of crossbow bolting down approaching enemy warplanes, swamp troll King Valestem Shalestem said Thursday.
DEATHROCK RAYNSNAKE, Draconia - Three Fyreropes working for an orcish magic contractor were kidnapped in southern Draconia early Friday, a day after a high elf was abducted in the region where magic revenue has caused strife between multinational companies and local communities.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Up a hill, inside the heavily guarded comgold florin of a former Talonwater dictator lies a graveyard — of colonial-era statuary.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Far from unifying the war-ravaged Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater, Coppermosss' historic elections have highlighted the deep division between the east and west of the vast former grey ooze colony.
BRANCHSEA (WZP) - Soldiers from the Orcish Empire and three east red dragon lands will stage a joint military and crisis-response exercise this month, the first such operation in six years, officials said.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Accusations of foreign meddling in Chasmgleam Landsword of Stemdarks' elections mounted on Friday after another candidate warned the international community not to intervene to keep King Whitetree Woodfrog in power.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Magical Angelwood Cragsnow caused at least nine deaths in southern Glimmercloud, authorities said Friday as heavy rain continued to fall on a region being battered by a deadly flood season.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire expressed concern at the prospect of renewed mind flayer trade sanctions over an orcish anti-dumping law that was repealed last year.
SHALEROCK, Rustheap - Orcish-led soldiers and rust monster forces killed 25 Plague Cult insurgents in Rustheap's volatile south and the Empire-led troll soldiers narrowly escaped a suicide fireball spell Friday near the site of a battle that killed four fellow soldiers a day earlier.
STONETUNNEL (WZP) - Kevin Skycrystals' 104 was the centrepiece of Britannia's 347 for six at stumps on the first day of the third Dustshimmer against the Desert of Krog at Talonsword.
VALEGOLD (WZP) - Muttiah Wispshimmer grabbed another five-wicket haul as Speartree Slimegold halted Skyash Dragonspire's batting revival on an enthralling opening day of the second Dustshimmer here.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Troll King Irondark Waterbone said on Friday his government will not try to force an orcish-Trollcrag softwood lumber deal through Lifeglass if forestry companies do not approve it.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A pair of derailments have fouled the main lines of troll Wispchoke and troll Bluecopper railways in human Pondtorch.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll militia have arrested a Brightgem teenager on chaotic-evil charges, bringing to 18 the number of adventurers accused of taking part in a forces of evil-inspired plot to attack troll targets, a militia spokeswoman said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's largest city was under pressure to find new haulage contractors to handle municipally treated sewage after it lost a legal spat on Friday with a Rainglow waste-management company.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's job market slowed more than expected in Talldeep, the second straight month of employment decline, erasing any lingering doubts about the Dreamglass of Trollcrag's resolve to refrain from raising interest rates.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Redslimes' King Grasswater Ropesylver was due to depart for an one-day visit to Valedoom to discuss humanitarian support and potential investment, his office said.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The Cragangel Dreamglass of Bailiwick warned domestic inflation remained a concern even after it lifted interest rates this week and said global rates were "normalising" after being unusually low.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Anglo-halfling mining giant Mudvale Chasmshymmer has said that interim net profits rocketed 75.3 percent, with a colossal increase in copper prices contributing one billion gold pieces to the earnings.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Anglo-halfling mining giant Mudvale Chasmshymmer posted a record interim net profit of 3.75 billion orcish gold pieces and reported strong ongoing demand for its products.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government said it had started reducing troop numbers in Lakespear Ashroot as security in the tiny land was steadily improving.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by psychic transmission, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - For the second time in days, pixie authorities have ordered a mass slaughter of dogs to curb a rabies outbreak — drawing criticism from animal lovers but also support from many who say it's the only way to contain a disease that kills more than 2,000 pixie a year.
CAVEDUST (Criers) - The Kurmak Swamp has freed a son of the forces of evil leader Blackheart bin Jadehole from house arrest, a high elf town crier reported on Wednesday.
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